{"id":24381,"date":"2026-05-22T11:01:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=24381"},"modified":"2026-05-22T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:09:08","slug":"great-moments-from-the-colbert-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/22\/great-moments-from-the-colbert-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Great moments from the Colbert Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/tv\/2026\/05\/22\/stephen-colbert-late-show-finale-all-celebrity-guests-songs\/\">Cameos from Bryan Cranston, Paul Rudd, Tim Meadows and Ryan Reynolds<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mediaite: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/stephen-colbert-sticks-it-to-cbs-in-peanuts-copyright-lawsuit-gag-during-final-late-show\/\">Colbert Sticks It to CBS in Peanuts Copyright Lawsuit Gag During Final Late Show<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Irish Star: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishstar.com\/culture\/entertainment\/stephen-colbert-late-show-episode-37185171\">Paul McCartney hits out at Trump with &#8216;democracy&#8217; jab on Colbert&#8217;s final show<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zG0HFw0edXY\">Performance unites Colbert with Elvis Costello, Jon Batiste, and Paul McCartney<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steve Futterman on X: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sfutterman\/status\/2057503014588465553\">A chalk message on Broadway in front of the theater, praising Colbert and criticizing President Trump and CBS&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameos, gags, music, and a message from outside Ed Sullivan Theater<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24409,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381\/revisions\/24409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}